DA Class of 1983 E-Newsletter
Laaaaaaate March 2006
Dear 83er,
NEW YORK, NEW YORK! On April 11th, ARMSTRONG, GOODSON, KNIGHT, LYNCH, PIERSOL, SCHLICKMANN, SCHMIDT, and WEYMOUTH
are registered to attend the Deerfield Reception in NYC at the Penn Club on 30 West 44th Street. Rumored that Gottscho will appear…Psyched that Goodson is coming from California with his family! To register go to www.deerfieldalumni.org and then “Calendar & Events”. If you are in the city, you should be there…Starts at 6 pm…
In conjunction, Knight will host the first 25th REUNION Brainstorming session at the M Bar, (next door to the Penn Club at 12 West 44th Street), at 5 PM on that same Tuesday, April 11th! Bring your energy and your ideas!
Charlie Cost ‘83 Award
At School Meeting Feb 21: The highlight of this week was the presentation from last year’s Charles Cost Award recipient. This award is a cash stipend granted “to that student who, upon application, demonstrates a sincere desire to work in a volunteer capacity for a significant portion of the summer in a position which best suggests a commitment to help his/her fellow humans, a quality which will long be remembered as an important ingredient in the personality of Charles Piper Cost ’83.” This recipient gave a touching and informative presentation on his project last summer in South Korea. He explained that his aunt was born with mental disabilities and that he wanted to find a way to enrich her life and the lives of those who lived with her in her residential community. With the generous help of the Cost family, he gave art lessons to all interested members of the residential community. The Deerfield community was shown pictures of these proud artists and the work they produced. Finally, these new art students were honored with an Opening at a real art gallery in Seoul. The looks on their faces and the pride with which this project was described demonstrated how important these shared experiences are to the whole community.
FEEDBACK: Thanks to Nelse Clark, Hardie Jackson, Brian Steward, Doug Schmidt and Ed Goodson for their encouraging comments about the January Newsletter. The pictures appear to be a big hit, so keep them coming!
BACK FROM THE MIDEAST, for now…Dave Smith is back from his flying patrols in Afghanistan, but “I'm home until late March then going back to the Mid East for a couple months. Things are good here. Anna is doing well. Hope you are well and had a great holiday season.” Dave Smith Ed. Note: Dave, you are likely back there by now. Our thoughts, prayers and best wishes to you and your family! Keep us posted!
Jon Bernstein writes: “My wife, Kristi, and I have a son (Jack) who will be 2 in March. (Not sure if I've reported before). Too much fun. I've got to say we didn't have to endure too many sleepless nights. He's a champion snoozer at night. Rarely wakes up. (Jinx, as I was typing, he let out a yell. But all's OK and quiet again.) I'm still slugging it out at American Airlines. Determined to stay at least until we turn a profit for 2 quarters in a row. Then I'll contact Mr. Wareck about how to start a revolution.
Other than Jack and work, I spend lots of time helping my folks rebuild their house. Their town, Bay St. Louis, MS, was pretty much destroyed by Katrina. They're fixing up their house and will sell it. You can't imagine the destruction until you see it. I was down there a couple weeks ago, and there are huge (I mean huge) areas where nothing has been touched. It's as if the hurricane was last week. I also have tons of friends and family in New Orleans (my hometown) that we're doing whatever we can to help. The positive is my folks will probably move here.”
Congrats to Kevin McKelvey on his new job as Sales Director in the Americas for Groove Mobile, a hot digital music company!
Dave Venman chimed in with a note to the editor: “My old neighbor (on Plunkett West I) – boy that was a long time ago. (I used to be cool). Good to hear from you – sounds like things are going well, as always, at DA. I have not run into anyone in quite some time, although I used to see Jim Sullivan at Vermont Law School (even that was a long time ago now), and quite a few folks in and around Burlington, VT. I am now married with two children (Ethan 5 and Sophie 2), and living in Lincoln, VT, otherwise known as heaven on earth (population 500 or so). I have my own law practice with my wife, Sandra Lee, with offices in Vergennes and Middlebury. I specialize in Commercial and residential real estate, business/commercial law, and wills/estates, while my wife focuses on criminal and family law. We have no employees to keep overhead low, and with understanding bosses are able to slip out for afternoons of skiing (4 ski areas within ½ hour from home) and mountain biking. Not so bad for an old man.
Gotta go, but I wanted to touch base and say hello. Greetings to all, and I promise to put June, 2008 on my calendar.
Man on the move: Scott Pryce has a new position also: “I’ve been asked to run ProLogis operations in Iberia. ProLogis is an industrial real estate development and management company. This means I’m moving from Paris to Barcelona: it’s tough having to move from one “horrible” city to another. Linguistic adaptations are once again in order: I’m looking forward to morphing my Latin American Spanish to Spanish Castilian, and my Brazilian Portuguese to the old continent’s version of the language. I’ve got a huge renovation project on a house by the beach, which will be ready to receive guests once the contractors finish the job. But it is hard to say when that will be in the land of “mañana.”
THE NEW ALUMNI WEBSITE! Twenty-Eight (28) of us have registered on the new site so far – the more who register and “unhide” a bit of contact information – the more robust the DIRECTORY SEARCH feature will be!
Having you been to the CLASS of 1983 PAGE on the new site at www.deerfieldalumni.org lately? (I know it needs work-send suggestions). If you need help registering for the new site contact Doug dschmidt2@nyc.rr.com or John jknight@deerfield.edu… Check out the upgrades on the new site!
Automated registration and password retrieval process.
MyPage feature that can be customized.
Permanent email forwarding.
Ability to create and post class notes and related photos.
The ability to register online for events in addition to Reunion and to display who else is attending.
Use virtually any field in the alumni directory searches.
Personally select which pieces of information are viewable and which are hidden for your own record.
83 ON CAMPUS
Ed Goodson and family are planning an East Coast trip in early April. They might even hit the NYC reception on April 11!!! Update: They are registered!
FOR THE SKIERS:
Alpine Skiing teams both finish second in Class A in NEPSAC! This is the top New England skiing class. Last year, their first in Class A, our Boys finished 3rd and girls finished 4th. All this without much snow!
Second Place Finish for Alpine Skiers
February 17, 2006: Both the girls and boys team finished 2nd in the NEPSAC Alpine Skiing Class A Championships.
For the Slalom event all 5 boys racers finished in the top 15. Captains Kyle Avery and Marshall MacNabb finished 2nd and 5th respectively. The girls were paced by Christie Schnurr's 3rd place and Captain Liz McClure's 8th place finish.
In the afternoon's Giant Slalom event the girls team was again led by Christie Schnurr and Captain Liz McClure (4th and 7th) with Captain Catherine Hart finishing in 11th. Captains Marshal MacNabb and Kyle Avery led the charge for the boys (4th and 7th) followed by freshman Philip Amato in 10th.
New England Prep School Class A Alpine Ski Championships 2006
Boys Team Results:
Place Team Slalom GS Score
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1 HOLDERNESS 11 8 19
2 DEERFIELD 18 21 39
3 NEW HAMPTON 24 27 51
4 KENTS HILL 44 45 89
5 VERMONT ACAD 60 69 129
6 PROCTOR ACAD 98 52 150
7 ST PAULS 95 58 153
8 EAGLEBROOK 89 75 164
9 GOULD 66 100 166
10 KIMBALL UNION 102 84 186
Girls Team Results:
Place Team Slalom GS Score
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1 HOLDERNESS 11 8 19
2 DEERFIELD 25 22 47
3 GOULD 30 28 58
4 ST PAULS 37 39 76
5 KENTS HILL 58 59 117
6 VERMONT ACAD 77 84 161
7 PROCTOR ACAD 70 94 164
8 KIMBALL UNION 105 73 178
9 NEW HAMPTON 91 96 187
Hosted by HOLDERNESS SCHOOL at CANNON MOUNTAIN, FRANCONIA, NH.
THE PHOTO SECTION:
Doug and Lisa Cruikshank recently visited John and Martha Knight in Hatfield, MA. Doug is on a “garden walk” as he transitions from CSFB to a new job at Lehmann Brothers. In his spare time, Doug has developed a new hobby as shown below. Here Doug shows us the size of his…latest bottle of port wine.
Giving to DA: We’re in the final 90 days. Help us regain our laudable participation level. It doesn’t get much easier than clicking below:
P.S. 25th reunion is June 6-8, 2008
Please let me know if there is a better email address for this missive…Email for newsletter contributions is jknight01038@comcast.net – or you could always use classnotes@deerfield.edu, or POST YOUR OWN to the website at www.deerfieldalumni.org. Hope to hear from you…
